Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.
Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.
When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop.
The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . .
If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.
Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.
Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.
Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.
... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.
I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not.
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation
In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
A home isn’t only defined by what you need, Bram. It’s also about the people who need you
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.
I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.
Maybe thats because we take criticism best from those we love and those who love us-Ethan
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.
The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.
Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.
He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.